Deadly Arts G.A.S.P.

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• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Product Description

GameSpot Review

Deadly Arts is a bandwagon-hopping 3D fighting game from Konami. While it has one or two interesting modes, the gameplay is incredibly generic, and the character design is completely drab.

Where Deadly Arts differs from other 3D fighters is in its create-a-fighter option. The option is surprisingly full-featured when compared with the rest of the game. You can pick from various hairstyles, body shapes, heights, and faces when dealing with your fighter's appearance. Once finished, you pick one of the stock characters to fight against. As you win, you'll be able to learn moves from the other fighters, eventually piecing together the best moves from each of the other characters. The other interesting mode is the tag mode, where you form a three-person team. You can switch characters at any time, but just like baseball, once you take a guy out, he's out for the rest of the match.

The game plays similarly to Virtua Fighter, in that you have punch, kick, block, and evade buttons. The combo system is fairly simplistic, allowing people to pound on one button and get two or three hits. You can also strike opponents when they're down. If time runs out, various scores are tabulated, and the score leader, rather than the energy leader, wins.

The characters in Deadly Arts lack life. They all reek of the cookie-cutter character design common in second- and third-tier fighters. Also, the character animation is really lackluster. The game's graphics are very plain, and the stages can cause quite a bit of slowdown, especially when they have to use foreground transparencies to keep the characters visible.

Deadly Arts is just too basic. It doesn't have any truly distinguishing characteristics, and the gameplay just isn't interesting in any way. Don't waste your time or money on this one. --Jeff Gerstmann
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Manufacturer Description

Konami's first fighting game on the N64! Beautifully rendered characters and backgrounds. Tons of fighters each with their own unique abilities and personalities. The first fighting game where you can create and train your own fighter!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deadly Arts review, March 18, 2002

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ShadovvClavv (Vermillion, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadly Arts G.A.S.P. (Game Cartridge)

Only 5 characters, you say? next time get your facts straight. Deadly Arts in one of a rare breed; realistic fighting games. the game moves can be done by real people, and in fact ware based on real martial arts. The game had a lot of effort put into it by the company only to be shot down by the consumer market. People have gotten so obsessed with flashy games that they don't notice how shallow the games are. This is a nice but greatly underapreciated change of pace

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rare N64 Fighter Classic., February 7, 2003

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This review is from: Deadly Arts G.A.S.P. (Game Cartridge)

Mosty people never even know this game exists, but it's one of the best 3D fighters to date. The gameplay is actually much deeper than most other fighters in this genre. Not just a button smasher, you actually have to learn alot of moves for your character. Plus you can make your own figher! Someone with taste will notice the cool qualities of this title, from the box art to the menu selection screen! Japanese manga/anime style art lines the box and instructions, and the in game graphics! Sound is awesome, with music that fits each stage, mostly cool industrial style synth beats, especially the factory steel mill track is really cool.

4.0 out of 5 stars almost but not quite, February 21, 2010

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ergo sum "esoteric gaming" (ohio) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Deadly Arts G.A.S.P. (Game Cartridge)

deadly arts is a 3-d fighting game that is full of good ideas, but falls short in the execution. the fighting is pretty much standard. there is a character editor so that you can make your own avatar to fight with. the character editor is limited in its choices, but still a cool addition. fighting fans might want to see the different aspects that make this game unique. others need not bother.